Essex County, Massachusetts, a core county of the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH market, holds $31.5B in deposits across 32 insured institutions and 216 branches. Salem Five Cents Savings Bank is the largest deposit holder at 15.0% share. The top three banks hold 39% of deposits, which places the county in the Fragmented band. Deposits have fallen 2.9% since 2021 while the branch count fell by 9.2%. It produced $48.4B of real gross domestic product in 2024, ranking #98 of the 1,523 ranked counties by economic output.
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Deposit trend
Branches: 238 in 2021 to 216 in 2026. Institutions: 36 to 32. Top-three share: 33% to 39%.
Institutions by deposits
The 32 insured institutions with a branch presence in this county, per the FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 30, 2026. Five-year change compares the same institution’s county deposits in 2021 and 2026. Institutions are tracked by FDIC certificate number, and where an institution acquired another bank, the acquired bank’s prior deposits are folded into the baseline so the change reflects the combined, continuing franchise rather than reading as new. “No 2021 presence” means neither the institution nor a bank it later absorbed reported deposits in this county that year. Deposit figures are nominal and are not adjusted for inflation.
Part of the Boston-Worcester-Providence market
Essex County is one of 18 counties that make up the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH market, a Combined Statistical Area (ranked #6 of 293 U.S. markets by economic output). It produces 6.7% of the market’s output and holds 4.5% of its deposits.
| Measure | Essex County | Share of parent market |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 GDP | $48.4B | 6.7% |
| Deposits | $31.5B | 4.5% |
| Population | 826,653 | 9.7% |
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Recruiting in Essex County
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